Roast Pistachio Stuffed Peaches With Orange Blossom Cream Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Coarse chop pistachios and biscuits.
• Put into a bowl and mix into a paste with the almonds, sugar, cinnamon, egg yolk, and orange blossom water or rose water.
• Fill the cavity of each peach generously with this mixture, and arrange the fruit closely in a medium size baking dish.
• SYRUP:.
• Dissolve the honey in 300ml water over a gentle heat, add cinnamon sticks, orange strips and boil for 5-6 minutes until slightly thickened.
• Stir in orange blossom water or rose water and pour around the peaches.
• Bake 15 minutes or until the peaches look soft without falling apart, basting occasionally.
• Serve with yoghurt or fromage frais.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat a small skillet over medium heat. Toast almonds in hot skillet until fragrant and lightly browned, about 3 minutes.
• Put almonds and brown sugar into a food processor bowl and process until almonds are chopped; add butter and pulse the mixture until completely blended.
• Arrange peaches with the cut sides facing up into the baking dish. Spoon 1 tablespoon almond mixture into the center of each peach. Pour liqueur and water into the baking dish; cover with aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven until the peaches are tender, 20 to 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Grind the pistachios in the food processor, then add the sugar and rose water (don't be tempted to put in any more rose water) and blend until it forms a soft, malleable, slightly oily paste. The mix will appear like wet sand at first, but the oil released by the pistachios will bind it into a workable paste.
• Rub your hands with oil so that the paste does not stick. Take little lumps the size of a small egg, roll each into a ball, then make a hole in it with your finger and enlarge it by pinching the sides and pulling them up to make a little dome-shaped pot.
• Fill the hole with about 1 tablespoon clotted cream. Put the pot down on a plate rubbed with oil and make a lid for it: take a lump of paste the size of a large olive, flatten it between the palms of your hands, and lay it over the cream. Stick the edges well together and place the pastry flat-side down in a pastry case.
• Alternatively, you can line tiny cake molds with plastic wrap and press the paste around the sides, fill the hollow with the cream, and cover with a lid.
• Keep the pastries in the refrigerator-the cream needs to be refrigerated and the paste will firm-until you are ready to serve them, sprinkled with confectioners' sugar.
• Do the same with almonds and use 2 tablespoons of orange blossom water instead of rose water.